[1] Winners are typically announced in December, with the award presented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in July.

[3] As with recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award for baseball broadcasting, the honorees are permanently recognized in a "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the Hall's library.

In February 2021, the BBWAA voted to remove his name from the award "due to Spink’s troubled history in supporting segregated baseball.

Starting with elections for induction in 2008, voting on the main Veterans Committee, which then selected only players whose careers began in 1943 or later, was restricted to Hall of Fame members.

After further changes announced for the 2011 and 2017 elections, BBWAA Career Excellence Award winners are eligible to serve on all of the era-based voting bodies that succeeded the Veterans Committee (and are still colloquially referred to as such).